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When medical training interferes with human connection

I'm a doctor and my patient asked me how long he has left and I gave him statistics but what he really wanted was for someone to acknowledge how scared he is.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Professional expertise can become a barrier to the simple human recognition that suffering people most need.

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